Why does Indiana Jones and the Great Circle freeze at 99%?

Every time I entered a new exploration area, the loading screen would hang at 99% for seconds, which was absolute torture. I tried migrating the game to another partition, but the freezing persisted, making the effort feel pointless. I accessed the GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration and increased the depth from 32 to 128. 4K random read performance improved to 65-72MB/s per CrystalDiskMark, and disk temperature stayed at 48-52℃ per HWiNFO.